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<\/p>\nLos Angeles: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the most-watched late-night program on US broadcast television and a frequent platform of satire aimed at President Donald Trump, will end its 10-year run on CBS in May 2026, the network said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The show will be retired and Colbert will not be replaced. New episodes will air until the end of the broadcast TV season in May 2026, a network statement said.<\/p>\n
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been cancelled.Credit: CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,\u201d the executives said in a statement.<\/p>\n
CBS parent company Paramount is seeking approval from the US Federal Communications Commission for an $US8.4 billion ($12.5 billion) merger with Skydance Media. This month, Paramount agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump over an interview with former vice president Kamala Harris, his Democratic challenger in the 2024 presidential race, that CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes broadcast in October.<\/p>\n
Colbert told his audience on Thursday that he was informed of his show\u2019s cancellation the night before. The audience booed, and Colbert responded: \u201cYeah, I share your feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not being replaced. This is all just going away,\u201d the 61-year-old comedian said.<\/p>\n
The Late Show debuted in 1993 with David Letterman as host after he was passed over for NBC\u2019s The Tonight Show. Colbert, a regular on The Daily Show before he hosted The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, took over The Late Show in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a fantastic job,\u201d Colbert said on Thursday. \u201cI wish somebody else was getting it, and it\u2019s a job that I\u2019m looking forward to doing with this usual gang of idiots for another 10 months.\u201d<\/p>\n
He thanked executives at CBS, his show\u2019s audience and the 200 people who work on the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the most-watched late-night program on US broadcast television and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-1952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}